Its not big enough. Yeah. So what happened on this day, july 19th . Marilyn monroe gave speech, she was nervous, put on all this makeup. It didnt go good at first but wiped off the makeup as soon as the cameras were off, she was stunning and they knew she was going to be a star. How is that . Your daily note. You can sign it up. Go to website. All right. All right. I have people that i want you to meet. We thought that you were. No. George con non, jr. , the night of the correspondence dinner. It didnt sound right. How well you know that guy, hes the godfather of one of my children, pretty well. [laughter] thats true, thats true. Are they doing interview . No, this is their party thing. Can i look at the cameras, am i allowed . This is for book tv and sometimes they two to book parties and i dont know if that helps you sell books or not but maybe people cancel kindle order. Hes not here. Why not . Shes working on a real project. A big thing. Detroit riot. Those in the history business are not really in control. Theres a movie coming out. Really . About the riot. Do you remember it . Yeah. You werent born yet. 50 years ago. I was one year out of high school. Im 67, 68, detroit was 67. 68 was washington in april after the Martin Luther king assassination. Right. I remember that. So did you you got your book. I didnt sign yours. No. I thought there would be a signing. There will, there will. Am i going to stand in line. No. Thanks for coming. I heard about it through oh. Im so sorry. Im glad that youre here. Its very exciting. Im not only a friend but a loyal reader. We should have she is. Shes with nick all summer. Kelly should be here and maybe a couple of grand babies. Very exciting, congratulations. Appreciate it. The man who writes better books. No, no. Ive been urging you to do this. Yes, you have. Im not the only up with i expect. They all had to be recorded and rewritten. Youre kidding . No. Books are books. Well, yes and yes. I mean, you know, im going to ask you to sign my book. I will do it right now. Okay. Lets ask somebody [inaudible] no, no, hold this, hold my wine and i will sign your book. Oh, okay. This is going to be worth something. Well, work, the environment needs saving. Tell me about it. 20 years of progress. There we go. How is your dad doing these days . Hes good. He has to be in his 80s. Born in 1933. Well, then he is. 1933. Graduate from college. [inaudible conversations] rich man in a short period of time. Good line, i thought i would use it again. The empire, the empire. You run you cant possibly Read Everything that appears. The hardest working in dc, we know thats not true but nice thing thats said about you. Grandbaby alert. Oh, okay. All right. Hey. Hey, you. Hi, micaela. Thats sabrina. The book, yeah, you see that. Can i hold you for a minute. Youre smiling for pictures. You want to stay with mom, did levy come, is kyle here . Yeah. Shes shy to be on cspan. [laughter] all right. Very excited. How are you . Im good. Hey. How are you . You want to be on tv . Hes on cspan. Hey, baby. Good to see you. [inaudible conversations] a little worn out. She looks tired. Is she . [inaudible conversations] organization, dude. [laughter] that was you . How are you doing . Lou, the editor. We are on cspan. Book party tv. And my soninlaw. [laughter] yeah. We have to stay for another im going make a presentation. A presentation. Is it short . You actually going talk . Complete through it on your feet. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] hey, you, nice to see you. You cant use these in your morning columns anymore . Have you dealt with people in every part. Sometimes i think we need to do more of that in journalism. This week im just im using this week but, you know, i like writing new ones, so in two years on july 19th, today in two years youre not going to do [inaudible] very good. Highly rated. Youre on cspan, you know. Good morning. This is a competition. This is bureau chief of cnn. Its a crazy summer. Yeah. Well, you know, i think more positive stories and its out of my control. How are you guys do you think of doing a talk with the president , anything you can do on your end . You make news, you cover the news, we cover the news. Thats what i tell my crew the same thing. Absolutely. Look at this one. Hi, micaela. This is micaela. Shes 3. Im going to sign his book. Would you sit down for a minute and then i will pick you back up, okay . [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you, sir, congratulations. Who is this for . Me. Because i have both of the girls ive already signed for these. You dont have to buy it. My mom and dad. Yeah. Lusher . Yeah. Sam and gloria. Regular spelling . And we also like what you wrote about charles dickens. Right. Gloria. Gloria, yeah. [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] i wanted to warn you that i got the books so you dont have too many of them in your house. I love it. Ive been enjoying it. Im reading it today. Is andy here . Yeah. Where is he . Hey, you, how are you . Nice to see you. Exciting. Thank you. We have a lot of people to see you, could you sign one of these for me, janet. Regular spelling . Yeah. [inaudible] wanted to meet you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where does she live . In virginia common wealth. What does she do for a living . [inaudible] this one is mine, you dont have to sign mine, you can sign it later. I will do it later. There he is. I took an earlier shuttle. This is my granddaughter. Thats how long we have known each other. Thats my granddaughter. Shes adorable. Yeah, she is. [inaudible conversations] i have to run and go do hardball. Yes, yes. Congrats. My daughter is a 10yearold. Shes so into history. Its a her . Chloe. Hi, shawn. Say hi to this guy. Chloe. Green. Yeah. Just like you. [inaudible conversations] the only thing she knows that daddys book starts with the f word and shes not allow today read it. This one is much better in that regard. We are going to do we will do something with your book. [inaudible conversations] are you in town for a while . Im back and forth. I have to [inaudible] i will make it happen. All right, pal. All right, buddy. Are you okay there, are you all right . Okay. Im, so sorry. Shes tough. Shes not crying at all. You want to bump me on the head with the book . No . Are we even . No. All right, pal, see you soon. I remember you, carl. What do you want me to make it out to . Carl, just regular spelling . Stay here dont go away. [inaudible conversations] how are you sean . Get some food. Well, thank you. Yeah, yeah. [inaudible conversations] hi, im madison. Im here on behalf of matt. Where is matt . In new york city and called before i came, are you going and he said, yeah, please tell him that i wish i could be there. He definitely hes bummed that hes not here. Thats great, hes a great person. [inaudible] drink and make yourself at home. Thank you for having me up. Im excited. I am going to grab one of your books. Thank you. Yes. This is great. Her name is kelly. Middle child. You know kyle from cspan . Editor of hotline. Not really, i dont think i do. Make sure you meet him tonight. You wanting to find your mommy, come on, i will go find her, excuse me, i will be back, you guys, we are on a mission. Lets find your mom, shall we . Hey, jimmy, there he is, the man of the hour. Follow me over here. Yeah. There she is. [inaudible conversations] it wasnt my advice. Several people suggested that. Well, they were wonderful. [inaudible conversations] you cant be fiona. Thats me. Where are you now, what are you doing . When i met you, you were that size. Thats right. In chicago, what are you doing there . Second year no kidding. God bless you. Thats the lords work. It is, absolutely. Youre good. I noticed the camera. No bad language. [laughter] once that comes off, a whole other story. Im signing now but i will sign after. I wont let you go. I no where to find you, congratulations. How are you . You guys know each other . Jeff, hi. He was in interview with me for a one million years. My daughter fiona. Hi, how are you . Are you not signing yeah, i will sign. Thank you. I will sign yours too. Great. So glad that you got this out, man. Thank you. You should have done this for a long time. Well, when we either just got the contract or considering it, we talked, so yeah. Rewrite much of your stuff or did you yeah, i had to. Thats too bad. [laughter] its better that way. [laughter] thank you, friend. Stick around. Im not going anywhere. Thats mine. I cant even remember, we first met in sacramento, how long that was in the 70s, wasnt . I think so or early 80s. Hes concentrating. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] i cant wait. Yvonne kindle book. Read this on the subway and say, oh, my gosh. Are you doing all right . Yeah, im doing good. You have to come downtown and have lunch if you have nothing to do. Do i work at home . Youre retired you can come to washington. Yeah. [inaudible conversations] not quite for you. You got that out of the system. I got it out of my system. Im a very relaxed man. I need to get another drink. Hi, carl. Thank you very much. Katherine. Hi, this is katherine york. This is mikes cousins daughter. Shes working at the post right now. Really . [inaudible] theres nothing to investigate right now. [laughter] nothing to see here. American university Investigative Reporters workshop. Right. Who runs it . Chuck woods. Yeah, yeah. [inaudible conversations] sure. You will enjoy this. Some of them youll remember but i dont remember a lot. I think you met our friend recently or he heard you speak. Where . I dont know. Main he got an award. Right. He introduced you. Thats right. Oh, yeah. I liked him very much. I asked him, i said, did he really call you the butcher and he said, no. [laughter] theyre great. Congratulations on the book. My first edition. On ebay for eight or nine bucks. Cal ripken to sign a ball. How did you manage that . I was in there. Long story. [inaudible] i said, you know, i found out that would be worth a lot of money if i had not had him sign your name because he dated it and he didnt miss the beat, he was 14, 15, thats okay, a lot of the memorable connectors, i just go to new jersey and i will be all right. Congratulations, great party. Thank you, thank you. My copy just arrived on my doorstep this morning. I will bring it so you can sign on friday. Cspan, buddy. [laughter] this is james, team congressional correspondence, keep him another months, for the time being hes ours. Even if you go with them, you have to be on our team. [inaudible] there you go. Thank you all for coming, really, really appreciate everyone being here to support carl and support the book, i want to thank the Hoover Institution for supporting the event, maria and her crew for letting us use this space, its a gorgeous building and we are thrilled to be here. So my name is tom bevan. [laughter] and i want to say just a few words about the author and a few words about the book and i will turn it to the man himself, as most of you know, this book is based off of carls morning note that he has written for us nor a number of years and a couple of years ago carl was scheduled to take a vacation and he didnt want the note to go dormant for the week, so he we came up with this idea that we would have guest people right write the note and im sure people who wrote the note are in this room, george, and i had one, i forget which date it was exactly. I think it was a wednesday, but i first had to figure out, spent a coupling of hours researching what happened on my date and then once i decided what i wanted to write about i had to spend a couple of hours researching it and trying to figure out as much as i could about it and a couple of hours of writing it and i think it was okay, i think i wrote about the space program, i do remember in preparing these remarks that carl never asked me to write another guest note so maybe [laughter] maybe it wasnt as good as i thought it was. But the point of the story is that the talent and effort that this guy puts in to his morning note, it took a team of five people just to do what he does and what he does, by the way, before most people get to work, its astonishing and i couldnt have written five days worth of notes, let alone every five days for the last five years as carl has done and done with such passion and commitment and at really high level. Its been amazing to watch and most of you probably are subscribers to his note and you know exactly what im talking about. And the other thing i would say about carl is before you all think that im a terrible boss and a slave can have slavedriver and this is labor of love for him, in the past few years i will hear carl in his office, in his house or on the phone, man, i had a great note, did a great note. You to read it, love that note. [laughter] at least once a week and theres nothing that puts carl in a better mood than writing a good note. Actually its one thing and its the feedback that he receives from his readers which every day at least once a day and often times much more than that, carl gets notes from people all over the country who read his note and say, man, it inspired me, it reminded me of a story, i learned something new thanking him for his thoughtfulness and the subjects that he covered, so now a little bit about the book itself. Its unlike anything that i think any of us have ever seen. If you havent delved into it, collection of 365, not even short stories, micro stories, 400500 words, all have middle, beginning and an end. You can read this book, you can open it up on todays date and start today and follow for the next year and you can open it up to your birthday or anniversary and can road a note, ten notes or a hundred notes, as many as you want and you can do it at any time. Its a really special book in that regard because its different from anything that i have ever read, but the other thing that comes through in this book is carls passion for america. He had to make a lot of decisions. On any given day there were 50 things he could have written about and he had to choose what he wanted, what he thought should be included in this book and so through those choices you learn a lot about carl and his passion for sports, for politics, for president s, for history, his, his passion for cowboys and cab drivers and athletes and astronauts and, of course, baseball players. Song writers and scientists, the list goes on and on, but above all, this is a man for a gift for telling a story and this is a story of america and his love for this country really comes through in what hes choosen to write about and how he writes about them. With that, i would love to offer a toast to mr. Carl cannon on the publication of his new book on this date, mr. Cannon, to you. Cheers [applause] i think you need this so people in the room can hear you. That one is for cspan. Okay, im not going to talk very long. I think what we did talk. Pardon . [laughter] the heckler in the room is george, jr. Of atlantic media. Im going to speak to David Bradley about you. George timed my toast at my daughter kellys wedding and he came in at five or six minutes. It was way longer. [laughter] 19 minutes. I will try to speak to 4 or 5, when you came in, most of you put a date in this box there that shelby is holding and this is sort of a gimmick but we didnt know how else to do it, there are actually 368 essays in this book, i did leap year and two days i did twice and i dont know why but i just did. I just want to tell you one brief thing, sean is here, publisher of 12 books, distinguishedlooking gentleman back there. Raise your hand, sean. Sean came to washington one day and he said, he was looking for me to give him names of other people to write books and, you know, i wasnt going to do that. I took the meeting but and i said something, well, i was thinking of turning my morning notes to a book and sean thought about it for a few minutes and said, i think we could do that and we shook hands on, thats the way things used to work and maybe it was better then. Ive known sean since he was intern at icm in agency and he wrote a novel and i must have reviewed it, positive review and i knew him when he was an editor and tom bevan and i wrote an ebook for him and now hes a publisher. We did this thing. And the reason im bringing that up is i thought i turned my notes into a book and i thought i had written the book, that turned out not to be the case, every note had to be reresearched and rewritten, a lot more work than i thought it was and the one thing i did, i ran out of time and i pushed the deadline and pushed the deadline but i didnt get acknowledgments in and i would like to take a moment to acknowledge a few people, ive already acknowledged sean, 12 books, tom bevan who you heard from and his Business Partner john mcintyre, john is here to be able to work for politics for a company like that, the culture that we have, you can probably get a sense from listening to tom, its nurturing and supportive and i couldnt have done it without them. You know, not having acknowledgment, its a problem. Im not going to do that again. I would say half of the people in this room helped me with the book, actually. Sharon cannon who is here. [laughter] our daughter is here, the little girls are our granddaughters, liv and micaela. Something she found in Katherine Grahams autobiography about a person six or seven decades how people thought those were the end days as politics and nothing as terrible as it is today and i threw that in because thats one of the themes that come through my note, one of the themes thats in the book, at least three or four of them. Thicks seem bad right now in washington things seem bad, politics in the country, whatever we are facing we usually faced it in the past and worst and we sort of we come through it as a country and usually stronger. Not always, every once in a while we go off to rails but thats one of the themes of book and another theme of the book is that its dedicate today immigrants and i got this idea, this was something i just discovered as i was writing it. In the course of American History when we needed something, idea or invention or just something to happen, it was often an immigrant who was there to provide it and so thats something that comes through. Another thing that comes through is that the stories that we think we know, we dont know like George Washington probably did cut that cherry tree. You can read about that. Yeah. Yeah. And the moral of the story is he couldnt tell a lie. Mark twain said, im a better man than george, he cant tell a lie, i can but i wont. The moral of the story was written by mason, the first president ial biographer and as far as i know the first Investigative Reporter writing about president s because the cherry tree story he quoted an anonymous source. He implied that it was an aunt so he had a source. The point of that story really isnt the george couldnt tell a lie, he grew up in a household where as a little boy accused of something, he could tell the truth without the fare of being whipped. As you get in American History, you find these things and some of what we think we know is wrong and i would i did my little part to try to set the record straight and there are individual stories, tom, says, 454, but hopefully you come to the end and you get a sense of this country and who people are and so with that, should we should we one other person since cspan is here, there are probably errors in it, far fewer than there would have been, bob castillo, i made change after change. I was looking at the book today, sean, and there was something that wasnt in the index and i wanted there. If we are lucky to do a second printing, i am going to put you guys through hell again. And the rest of you well, you know what youve done for me. I cant name everybody. Shelby, are we ready for the big drawing . Should i go in the bottom like this . All right, im going to get this one. Oh, april 27th. I guess i need a book, i didnt memorize the book. Robert draper. April 27th. Yeah. This was nick, is nick here . Is that your birthday . What is that . Yeah. Nick, by the way, all of you can stop emailing me when you want your column to appear in real clear politics because i dont do that. [laughter] nick does that. His email is [laughter] april 27th, 1956. Going out on top. Boxing fans were stunned on this date when Rocky Marciano retired as undefeated champion of the world, he was only 32. Quote, no man can say what he will do in the future marciano said but barring poverty the ring has seen the last of me. Growing up in 1930s in massachusetts, rocky dreamed of becoming a baseball and football player, he was a solid athlete good enough to earn posttrial with chicago cubs and boxed in the army in world war ii mainly to get out of kp duty and had been successfully. At 511inches and 188 pounds he lacked the classic size of heavy weight. He was considered old for a fighter, rocky was in his mid20s when trainer charry goodman taught him to fine points of the sweet science but he had thundering each one of those fists and in 1949, 1950 he began amassing victories almost by in and outs. Loyal base of fans who yelled timber when rockys opponent would rubber leg. The big break came in october 26, when he climbed into a ring joe lewis, the younger man with impressive wins, 37 wins, 32 by in and out. In joe lewis rocky was facing perhaps the greatest fighter by all time. Marciano knocked him out in eighth round. The old reactions were not there. The reactions were not there said the old champ who retired after this fight. My age counted against me. After ward marciano went to lewis dressing room. He defended successfully five times before retiring, a decision he based partly on joe lewis example, rocky didnt wanting to out like that and he didnt. He died on august 31st, 1969 the day before his 46th birthday in a Small Plane Crash outside of des moines, iowa, joe lewis and muhammad ali attended the funeral. Lewis kissed the coffin as he passed it and said god is giving himself a beautiful man. [applause] all right, then. We still have a liquor and food, not liquor, wine and beer and food. One second. My friend davis wants to Say Something, this is not open mic. I want to leave you with wasnt personal note which is this, while i was doing this book, my brother, dave, got pancreatic cancer and was a blow to the family. He was blahed i was doing it. I have you know, we are getting into age, i have friends fighting cancer now and one of them is home recovering, shes an angel fan, i think she will watch the game. One of them is michael, michael and jen . Michael of ethics and Publicity Center is here with us, i ask all of you to keep michael and jen in your prayers tonight. All right. [applause] i promised i would try to Say Something about what carl cannon means to this city. I dont speak as a democrat and i dont speak as a partisan, i speak as someone or as his god forbid i should take on attorney. I want to say on behalf of all of, carl, that you are a unique resource to this city. You are bipartisan, you are fair, you are tough u, you are one hard journalist to spin and i sure did try and i want to thank you for all that youve done for everyone in the city and specially people who appreciate great journalism, thank you, carl. [applause] book tv recently visited capitol hill to visit members of congress what theyre reading this summer. Congressman sanchez, what are you reading this summer . Well, ive gotten through a new novels and in the middle of a couple and a couple that are on my list. So one of the books i recently read was the nighting gale, a story about women resisting nazi rule during world war ii and some of their efforts to try to help the resistance. Really excellent book, i highly recommend it. So much of history is written by men and stories are women are not told. Option b, how to build a resiliency and deal with loss and find joy in life as you know, she lost her husband, a little over a year ago and so this book is really great way to some helpful lessons and suggestions so that people can cope with loss and learn to live again and thats been a very eyeopening book. One of the books im reading with my 8yearold, the graphic novels march by john lewis, colleague of mine which talked about the Civil Rights Movement and my son is transparency transfixed. One of my books that i will get in the summer, theft by finding by david, one of my favorite authors, very much looking forward reading that book and also a bit of historical book, the fight for freedom. So i will be reading that to kind of bone up a little bit on my history. Book tv wants to know what youre reading, send us your Summer Reading list via twitter at book tv or instagram at book underscore tv or post it to our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv. Book tv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Next from the annual libertarian conference freedom fest a debate of late author and community organizeers alinsky. David alinsky and ralph banker, president of the alinsky center. Let me introduce the speakers. First dinesh dsouza, he has 35year career as writer, scholar and public intellectual, we have ralph benko from the alinsky center, president of the alinsky center, the second most conservative man in the world for his widely recognized advocacy of the Gold Standard and then we have davidli
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